Just implement a dollar a vote and be done with it. The more voats a post has the more downvoats it needs to be pushed down.
The more upvoats a person has the more needed in total to ban them.
Let people voat with their wallet. The shills will fucking hate it because they rely on free-accounts, third world inbreds, and 'college interns working for valuable experience' (dipshits who pay colleges for credits while working at companies as free labor) as well as people living on foodstamps while 'working' as 'community organizers' shitposting via unlimited alt accounts because think tanks use welfare programs and people living in college dorms on tax payer dimes as a form of labor arbitrage converting wasted time into wasted text.

Make them finance that shit and suddenly the volume goes way down because gaming the signal-to-noise ratio no longer works on the cheap--plus it solves the funding problem here.

Thats just it. The strategy used now is only viable because gaming media platforms costs nothing.
One platform changing to a dollar voat isn't going to change their strategy, so the shills would simply leave.